Pump-Resonant Excitation Of The 946-Nm Nd-Yag Laser

    Authors

    J. P. Cuthbertson;G. J. Dixon

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    ROOM-TEMPERATURE; CONTINUOUS-WAVE; DIODE; GENERATION; EMISSION; Optics

    Abstract

    Pump-resonant excitation, in which a weakly absorbing gain medium is placed inside an optical cavity that is resonant at both the pump and laser wavelengths, is shown to reduce significantly the losses due to saturable absorption in a quasi-three-level, diode-pumped laser. Initial experiments, in which this technique is applied to the 946-nm Nd:YAG laser, have yielded incident threshold power levels below 1.3 mW and optical slope efficiencies exceeding 25%.

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    16

    Issue/Number

    6

    Publication Date

    1-1-1991

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    396

    Last Page

    398

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:A1991FA22200016

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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